John Byrom
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John Byrom, John Byrom of Kersal, or John Byrom of Manchester was an English poet, the inventor of a revolutionary system of shorthand and later a significant landowner. He is most remembered as the w
Portrait of Byrom as a young man
Kersal Cell
Newspaper advertisement for Byrom's shorthand system from the Daily Gazetteer, 1741
Byrom Hall, Lowton, Greater Manchester
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in an English nursery rhyme and in Lewis Carroll's 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Their names may have originally come from a
John Byrom
…of which were found upon Richardson's death among his manuscripts. Byrom is also remembered for his epigrams and, above all, his coinage of the phrase Tweedledum and Tweedledee (in connection with a dispute about the merits of the two composers, George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini). Ralph Tomlinson authored a parody…
John Tenniel's illustration, from Through the Looking-Glass (1871), chapter 4